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Show PRESIDENT STANDS BY SPELLING REFORM Issues Orders That Carnegie's Innovations in English Be , Used in White House. OYSTER BAY, Aug. 2. President Roosevelt has Indorsed the Carnegie spelling reform movement. He Issued orders today to Public Printer Stllllngs that hereafter nil messages from tho President and nil other documents emanating ema-nating from the White House shall be printed In accordance with the recommendations recom-mendations of tho spelling rerorm committee, com-mittee, headed by Drnuder Matthews, professor pro-fessor of English at Columbia university. uni-versity. This committee has published a list of 300 words, In which the Bpelllng is reformed. This list contains such words as "thru" and "tho" as the spoiling for "through" and "though." Tho President's official sanction of this reform movement Is regarded as the most effective and speediest method of Inaugurating the now system of spelling throughout tho country. Not only will the printed documents emanating from tho President utilize tho reform spoiling, but his own correspondence, also, will ba spoiled in the new stylu. Secrotury Loob has sent for tho list of words which havo been reformed, and upou Its arrival will Immediately order all correspondence of the President and of tho executive force of the White House spelled in accordance therewith. As the spelling reform committee com-mittee shall adopt new reformB thoso will be added lo thu President's list, and also that of the public printer. "While tho order to tho printer today does not contemplate an Immediate reform re-form in tho spelling of oulclal documents from the executive departments In Washington, Wash-ington, it is regarded as more than likely that tho respective heads of tho departments depart-ments will fall In line with tho President's Presi-dent's Ideas nnd havo their official documents docu-ments printed in tho new spelling. |